Weekend beercast: Hot Tatamales hoist one in the fight against breast cancer

Please join me in supporting the Hot Tatamales as they support research and programs to prevent and find a cure for breast cancer. These women, including several fine colleagues of mine, are attempting to raise at least $28,000 before they set off to participate in the 2014 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

It’s a personal issue for them and, therefore, for me. And since we all know someone who has been affected by breast cancer, it’s a personal issue for all of us.

You can help by attending the Cheers for a Cure! event on Saturday afternoon at Hughie’s Tavern & Grille, a neat little Vietnamese restaurant with a nice craft beer selection, both draft and packaged. I can vouch for the food and the beer.

In addition to bringing good beer and good people together, the Hot Tatamales have set up a silent auction featuring several original photographic works, Central Market gift cards and other good stuff. There will be live music and a visit from Shoe Bar Houston. So bring money.

And I am pitching in with a Houston beer basket filled with good brews and local swag. I’ll also be there signing copies of “Houston Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Bayou City” and donating 25 percent of all proceeds to the Hot Tatamales as they prepare for the Avon Walk in April.

Houston’s craft beer community has proven itself a generous bunch, time and again. So please come out on Saturday to enjoy some good beers and pitch in for another good cause.

About the group: The Hot Tatamales was founded to raise money for breast cancer research after one of our colleagues was diagnosed. (She has been through the wringer, but she is doing well and back at work.) You can follow them on Facebook here.